Text Fields/Numeric Fields Drop Leading Zero

Hi levi.rogers,

Don't use a number field, use a text field and make sure all operations are treated as text, not numbers.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.pdfscripting.com
www.windjack.com

Well I changed that but I guess I'm unsure how to force it to read them as text not numbers.

Hi levi.rogers,

Is this a straight entry field- the user will type the account number into the field- or does the number come from somewhere else? Do you need to have the validation pattern? If you make this a text entry field with no validation the leading zero should not get stripped.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.pdfscripting.com
www.windjack.com

When I do a display pattern I just use "9"s for the pattern and set the length to a fixed number ( I use a text field for numbers too). So if you want a 10 digit number with leading zeros:

Display Pattern: 999999999

Rick Kuhlmann

hi,

how to put restriction on users so that he can not enter alphabets in this text field.

my field for account number should either be numeric which can accept zero at the
beginning or text which only accepts numbers.

I tried following code in textfield's change event but it is still accepting alphabets

if(isNaN(xfa.event.change)) xfa.event.change = "";
if(isNaN(xfa.event.prevText)) xfa.event.change = "";


regards,
hemant.

[color=#333333]@hemant[/color]
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[color=#333333]Use a numeric field to allow numeric inputs only.[/color]
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[color=#333333]To display the numbers with leading zeros use a pattern such as: num{99999}.[/color]

Dear Acrobat Form Experts,

I have the same problem as above at acrobat forms.

Dear Acrobat Form Expert,

In Acrobat Form i required, fields to insert account numbers like "000150125" which start with "0"(zero).
without making the field text, how I’m going to appear as 000150125.

Also, alphabets should be restricted for users.

Regards
Nalaka

After you add the "Text" form field to the template:
Select the form field
Select the "Object" tab.

On the "Field" tab:
Field Format: text{999999999}
Display Pattern:text{999999999}

On the "Value" tab:
Validation Pattern: text{999999999}

The above will detect non-numeric values entered into the field upon exit. If you want to trap errors as typed, then you will need to use some script coding. There are also options for a custom entry error message.

A "Text" field needs to be used because numeric fields are stored in a special form called IEEE754 64-bit binary values and this data format suppresses leading zeros. More information about the XFA FormCalc Specification will explain more about the formats and literals.

Dear Kaiser,
Pl explain me little further. I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro.
And i couldn't find object tab.
Regards
Nalaka

You have posted in the LiveCycle Designer forum. The instructions that have been given are for LiveCycle Designer. LiveCycle Designer is part of the Acrobat suite but the application creates XML forms and this is significantly different than Acrobat at the design level.

If you are using Acrobat then you use a text field and in JavaScript access the value of a field using the 'valueAsString' property.